Early Childhood in Alabama

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"I was born in Prichard, Alabama, February 8th, 1922. I had one brother and two sisters. I lived with them for about 3 or 4—maybe 8 years, and then it was decided that…I should live with my grandparents. You must remember, in the early days, social security wasn’t invented, and when people got old, they get a grandniece, a grandchild, a grand-something to come and live with them, so I lived with my grandparents all the way through high school."